Nursing Home Administration Study Questions And Answers
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Nursing Home Administration
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Nursing Home Administration
Nursing Home Administration Study Questions And Answers
The most likely single cause for the series of bankruptcies among larger nursing home chains around the year 2000 was. ANS Paying too much for acquisitions in 1998 and 1999
In a conversation with the owner of an eight-facility chain, the ...
Nursing Home Administration Study Questions And
Answers
The most likely single cause for the series of bankruptcies among larger nursing home chains around the year 2000
was. ANS Paying too much for acquisitions in 1998 and 1999
In a conversation with the owner of an eight-facility chain, the newly hired administrator for the oldest facility in the
chain indicates that, since the mortgage is fully retired, he will concentrate more on being effective than efficient
since his Quality Indicators are all at or above state's average. The owner would likely. ANS Be distressed.
Under the Prospective Payment System, nursing facilities' reimbursed costs ANS Were more bundled
In recent years Medicare has ANS Shifted more costs onto nursing facilities
The nurse newly promoted to director of nurses (DON) insists on giving four RN hours of patient care each day on
the Alzheimer's wing in the 175-bed facility. The administrator should ANS Praise the new DON for her
resident-centeredness
The applicant for the administrator position in a facility near a large teaching hospital who insists that, if hired, as
before with his rural facility, he would not let the Medicare reimbursement policies affect his case mix. ANS Is
out of touch.
The newly hired assistant to the administrator insists the organizational chart line between his position and the
Department of Nursing be a solid line. The administrator should. ANS Be forewarned
The medical supplies provider tells the administrator of a facility that has not paid bills the past three months, but is
now operating under a bankruptcy judge's approved plan for restricting that no more deliveries will be made until
past bills are fully paid. The medical supplies provider ANS Does not understand how bankruptcy works.
An administrator who adopts the management-by-walking around (MBWA) approach by walking through the
facility and intently observing weekly has___. ANS Failed to understand MBWA
The nursing facility administrator who, using the management-by-walking-around (MBWA) technique, succeeds in
actually making appropriate corrections on the spot during his rounds___. ANS Doesn't understand MBWA
, The rate of increase in the total number of nursing facilities in the United States during the years 2008-2012
is_____. ANS Likely to be about level
The applicant for administrator of the facility insists that he has successfully used democratic leadership to the
exclusion of all other leadership styles. the interviewer should____. ANS Continue to interview candidates
The candidate for administrator said she used a variety of administrative styles, but couldn't say exactly which she
would use in every circumstance. The interviewer should be ____. ANS Favorably impressed.
The candidate for administrator indicated that she consistently chooses the charismatic style of leadership. this
should___ the interviewer. ANS Alert
The costs of providing subacute care to nursing home residents____. ANS Is perhaps triple that of the more
typical patient
The nurse supervisor who had just been appointed DON announced at the first department head meeting that she had
circulated a memo among the nurses that only formal communications were to be allowed in the nursing department.
The administrator should____. ANS Anticipate problems
The department head was not surprised to learn that the employee had only heard his positive comments to the
employee and ignored his criticisms. The department head's grasp of the communication process is_____. ANS
Appropriate
The administrator routinely accepted as his nearly exclusive information source the director of nursing's positive
reports on how nursing was going well. The administrator is _____. ANS Placing him at risk
Congress, and the federal rule makers behave as if the facility will run successfully if Congress and Centers for
Medicare and Medical Services can write enough rules. They are____. ANS Incorrect.
When the administrator notices that the DON seeks to turn as many duties as possible over to housekeeping, the
administrator should conclude that the DON is _____. ANS Behaving normally
The administrator insists that a timely copy of all report generated within the facility come across her desk before
anyone signs them. The administrator is____. ANS Not rationalizing her management information system.
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